These nine riders fit all criteria of being qualified for the World Cup, having one of the nationalities that the team announced as having riders from, and not having been announced elsewhere yet: Callum Scotson Roy Pieters Clément Davy Thomas Denis Morgan Kneisky Florian Maitre Louis Pijourlet Christopher Latham Mark Stewart

Scotson and Kneisky would target bigger teams, at least in my mind. Of the rest, I'll pick Mark Stewart & Thomas Denis.We'll see how good my powers of deduction are!

I wonder how much influence the new, Swedish-owned title sponsor had in this transfer?

As much as Argon had on Hugo Houle to Astana I'd imagine. Plus POC are Swedish too (unless I miss my mark) and if you want to bring a Swede on board, who better then thae national Champion. More power to him

As much as Argon had on Hugo Houle to Astana I'd imagine. Plus POC are Swedish too (unless I miss my mark) and if you want to bring a Swede on board, who better then thae national Champion. More power to him

Yes, POC is from Sweden as well.In any case, this doubles (!!) the number of Swedish pro cyclists.

I remember seeing him dropped by the peloton on the final stage of the 2013 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia.Surely my presence gave him the strength to keep going & now, almost five years later, get a Conti contract.

Ex , ex , ex One Pro Cycling Sebastian Lander can now add ex- to his list as he returns home Danish shores.

Sebastian Lander ---> Riwal

I wondered if this was on the card when he rode for the DK team at #PNDKR this year. I seem to remember Europa Ovina are to merge with another team and go pro-conti, not sure whether Lander didn't make the cut, or wishes to return to DK. Riwal are one of the better paying Conti teams.

Cykelmagasinet article has some very interesting comments re a low metabolism problem that he has suffered from in recent years. Disvovered at BMC but not medicated successfully.

well... Reguigui had a decent season on WT level. I thought Bille had retired from cycling a couple of weeks ago. And I never heard about Geoffrey Coupé, nor his plans to create a team. So yeah, this is quite a surprise to me

Edit: SOVAC from Algeria will be one of the sponsors of the team, so Reguigui's signing makes sense then

For 2018 Souifane Haddi joins his old Skydive teammate Edgar Pinto at the new Portuguese Vito Feirense - Blackjack team.

He was one of the best riders on Skydive, so good to see that he got a deal somewhere after not being able to race in 2017. It's hard to see them putting up a fitting calendar for him though, to be honest...